It doesn't seem to work that way. People are happy to accept vendor lockin until someone owns the market. Apple can make a very large profit using the same techniques they do now - good quality merchandise and a carefully managed brand image.
I found that Winedit dealt with that without any problem at all (I didn't have to do anything). I know people who use Winshell and had trouble configuring it to download those automatically, but I haven't needed to.
Yeah, I'm shocked that there wasn't a "France surrenders" reference, either in TFA or in the posts. Who are you people, and what have you done with the real slashdot?
On a more serious note, this is a real shame. Interoperability at the software level is easier to do than DRM, and governments should be supporting people's rights on this.
Yeah, you get students playing with stuff like this I never got to as an undergrad. Mindstorms is a really cool idea, and this just begs to be hacked in the second oldest meaning of the word.
Actually, an anonymous online poll recently concluded that the tissue isn't actually the preferred recepticle. [details] It was recently linked to on the Register [linky] before you get the wrong impression.
I'm drawn to quote the famous H.L. Menken, "I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."
If you want more bugs, how about:
- When I'm in the post writing screen, there is no text of the story or link to it, so I have to open Slashdot in another tab and go to the story to read it.
Agreed. I tend to hit reply with the middle mouse button these days, just to keep the thread open elsewhere.
- The comments index is very, very broken. The "threshholds" concept's three drop-down menus (-1:5), (Threaded/Nested/Flat/No comments), (Oldest 1st/Newest 1st/Highest 1st/Oldest 1st Ignore threads/Newest 1st Ignore threads), and the "Comments spill at 50" concept interact in bizzare ways such that I don't even know what it's *trying* to do.
I don't have a problem with it.
- I *hate* the fact that comments below your viewing threshhold are listed at the bottom of the thread level instead of between the posts that it was replying to and got a reply from... Please. for the love of god, put in an indicator if there is a post below the threshhold that a post is replying to.
There is one. Use the goddamn blockquotes and italics properly.
Slashdot's user prefs allow me to "bias" the moderation... I should be able to change the bias to one of several presets like on an Winamp equalizer on a per-story basis.
Thus the jump from "global warming" to "zOMG HURRICANES" still strikes me as unlikely, and blaming last season's monsters on it even moreso.
It has been shown that hurricanes require an ocean surface temperature of ~27 C to appear at all. If the ocean surface temperature is less than 27, no hurricanes. It's not so terribly hard to imagine they can find even greater correlations.
I don't have any data to say anything firmer than that (IANA Meteorologist, but I've spoken about this in depth with one), but it seems that the people in the know think there's something to it.
You could (correctly) argue that Lenin doesn't provide the only definition or vision of communism, but his is a widely-held one and formative of many derivatives.
Continued concentrate of power in the elite. In any democracy, wealth can be translated into political power. It is a fact of life. Rememeber Bush's address to a group of wealth business men, "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base." Continued power concentrated in the hands of few will diminish the protection and representation of the unelite. Growing numbers of the very rich can give money to political candidates who support their personal agendas. "Those contributions clearly have an influence on public policy," Gates says, such as more tax breaks for the rich or weakening of regulations that protect consumers.
All the more pointed when you consider Dubya's dad and grandad and great grandad... Look into the arms dealing end of the family business if you're bored.
You're thinking of Anarchism. Communism is an economic system, not a political one. There is no impetuous to dissolve the government in a communist system, whether ideal or one of the abominations of systems that have used that name in the past century.
It seems to have "infected" all of Adobe's recent product install CDs. Once it "infects" your computer it displays a popup whenever you open an Adobe app.
I prefer to just let my firewall treat it as a career criminal, and hey presto - no more updates.
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Is the program itself patented? :)
The up arrow will clear that.
It doesn't seem to work that way. People are happy to accept vendor lockin until someone owns the market. Apple can make a very large profit using the same techniques they do now - good quality merchandise and a carefully managed brand image.
Thank you - exactly. Consumers' rights, anti-monopoly laws (interoperability does a lot to stop that kind of thing), etc.
I found that Winedit dealt with that without any problem at all (I didn't have to do anything). I know people who use Winshell and had trouble configuring it to download those automatically, but I haven't needed to.
I found it very easy to install. (download page). I then installed Winshell, and never looked back.
That's right. I think I've heard that it's specifically Friday, but I'm not sure on that one.
Yeah, I'm shocked that there wasn't a "France surrenders" reference, either in TFA or in the posts. Who are you people, and what have you done with the real slashdot?
On a more serious note, this is a real shame. Interoperability at the software level is easier to do than DRM, and governments should be supporting people's rights on this.
Yeah, you get students playing with stuff like this I never got to as an undergrad. Mindstorms is a really cool idea, and this just begs to be hacked in the second oldest meaning of the word.
Batman Begins.
He's sworn never to buy any product from the company again. I don't think that counts as successful marketing.
If this replaces duct tape, will McGuyver carry around a little petri dish with a bacteria culture in it?
Actually, an anonymous online poll recently concluded that the tissue isn't actually the preferred recepticle. [details] It was recently linked to on the Register [linky] before you get the wrong impression.
I'm drawn to quote the famous H.L. Menken, "I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."
It has been shown that hurricanes require an ocean surface temperature of ~27 C to appear at all. If the ocean surface temperature is less than 27, no hurricanes. It's not so terribly hard to imagine they can find even greater correlations.
I don't have any data to say anything firmer than that (IANA Meteorologist, but I've spoken about this in depth with one), but it seems that the people in the know think there's something to it.
You could (correctly) argue that Lenin doesn't provide the only definition or vision of communism, but his is a widely-held one and formative of many derivatives.
In fact, I specifically argued that very thing.Continued concentrate of power in the elite. In any democracy, wealth can be translated into political power. It is a fact of life. Rememeber Bush's address to a group of wealth business men, "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base." Continued power concentrated in the hands of few will diminish the protection and representation of the unelite. Growing numbers of the very rich can give money to political candidates who support their personal agendas. "Those contributions clearly have an influence on public policy," Gates says, such as more tax breaks for the rich or weakening of regulations that protect consumers.
All the more pointed when you consider Dubya's dad and grandad and great grandad... Look into the arms dealing end of the family business if you're bored.
You're thinking of Anarchism. Communism is an economic system, not a political one. There is no impetuous to dissolve the government in a communist system, whether ideal or one of the abominations of systems that have used that name in the past century.
It seems to have "infected" all of Adobe's recent product install CDs. Once it "infects" your computer it displays a popup whenever you open an Adobe app.
I prefer to just let my firewall treat it as a career criminal, and hey presto - no more updates.Books can give you paper cuts.
I can just see the eBook manufacturers reading this thread and crying. Customers want papercuts. How the heck can you satisfy someone like that? ;)